Word has it that General Motors is mulling whether to discontinue the Chevrolet Volt in 2020 and replace it in 2022 with a crossover-style variant, but would this be desirable? According to Reuters, which cited “people familiar with the plans,” the Volt is one of six presumably under-selling vehicles the automaker is thinking about canceling. […]

Bob Lutz compared Tesla Motors supporters to “members of a religious cult” during a CNBC television interview yesterday. Hours before its quarterly earnings report, Lutz, a former General Motors vice chairman and promoter of the Chevy Volt, presented a scathing sound-bite-sized analysis of Tesla’s financial future and gave Tesla CEO Elon Musk a thumbs down […]

This month the five-year anniversary of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt mark the first half decade for mass-market plug-in electrified vehicles (PEVs). PEVs had existed prior, including the Mitsubishi i-MiEV circa 2009, the limited-production Tesla Roadster from 2008, and others, but the Volt and Leaf began for major manufacturers what is now a growing […]

If you’re holding onto Tesla stock but are not quite sure if you should, a quick talk with Bob Lutz could push you over the edge to sell. At least one might surmise as much after listening to the “Father of the Chevy Volt” who’s also involved with VIA Motors plug-in hybrids lay out a […]

VIA Motors has started production of its 2015 models of electrified trucks. Bob Lutz announced on Tuesday the 2015 production launch of the for now fleet-only VIA Electrified 4WD Chevy Silverado and Chevy Express cargo and passenger vans at the 2015 Automotive News World Congress in Detroit. Lutz, former vice chairman of General Motors, is […]

For a couple of family cars that sell in comparatively modest volumes, Nissan’s Leaf and Chevrolet’s Volt have made an outsized splash into the automotive landscape. Now four years since the first production Leaf was delivered Dec. 11, 2010 in the U.S., and the first Volt was sold days later on Dec. 15, the two […]

After a couple years of pilot testing and now as emissions certification are being completed, VIA Motors anticipates launching its VTRUX series hybrid vans around June and pickup trucks around this September. When – after some delays – it’s finally given the green light, the Utah-based company spun off in 2010 will begin filling multiple-unit purchase […]

Bob Lutz will speak at the opening general session of the Alternative Clean Transportation Conference (ACT Expo) at the Long Beach Convention Center in California May 6, 2014. Bob Lutz is often refered to as the father of the Chevy Volt and is a former Vice-Chairman of General Motors. Mr. Lutz now serves as Chairman […]

VIA Motors announced yesterday Bob Lutz was appointed Chairman of the Board of VIA Motors, maker of extended-range electric trucks, vans and SUVs. Lutz, former vice chairman of General Motors, is also known as the “father of the Chevy Volt” and was already a board member of VIA Motors. “VIA is fortunate to have the […]

In a newspaper interview last week, the “father of the Chevy Volt,” Bob Lutz, said General Motors missed its original opportunity to apply the “extended-range electric” powertrain formula used by the Chevrolet Volt on a light-duty truck. GM instead has a 2-mode hybrid which has sold weakly against heavy volume of its pickups and SUVs, […]